Kevin Bronson on May 15th, 2014

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Everything about “If and Or” – the debut full-length from L.A. duo the Boom Circuits – seems ready for a major motion picture. In fact, director Ben Redmond’s slick video for the hyper-romantic single “The Cost” almost qualifies itself. The album is the work of Vega Schenk and Andy Ellis, who, after releasing EPs in 2011 and 2012, landed the song “Everything and Nothing” on the soundtrack to “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2.” The Boom Circuits’ dream-pop rolls along like low-hanging clouds over a sea of synths and swells of melody. It’s hard to imagine, owing to its goose-pimply chorus and picturesque production, that “The Cost” won’t end up in rotation on major radio. Or, at the very least, in a cinema near you.